Some people travel to relax. Some travel to explore.But you? You travel because stories follow you everywhere. If it sounds like you, a travel writing retreat might be a good next step for you!

You can’t stop making up stories for strangers on the street

Your brain writes character sketches and maps out stories like it’s second nature. Whether it’s a woman in a writers’ retreat enjoying her quiet time, or a man guiding the people on a writing retreat with local tours, you’ve already imagined what their story would be like.

You can pack a bag in 30 mins with no preparation

Going on an impromptu residential writing retreat? Made a sudden plan to go on a heritage weekend trip to Visalam? You are always 10 minutes away from getting on that flight. Last-minute trips are “fun” for you. Your travel bag is almost always prepared or ready-to-go because adventure gives you a feeling of fulfillment.

Your beach Instagram captions turns into a short-story

That one shell on the shore? Somehow it turned into a full-blown backstory about your experience. You don’t write captions, you write paragraphs. You thrive on expressing yourself through creative writing.

You send your friends endless reels about other countries with “US WHEN?”

Every travel writing retreat reel you come across is a potential setting for your new story. You dream of travel retreats not for the trip itself, but for what it could inspire you to write.

Your most-used app while traveling? The Notes App!

While others scroll, you scribble. Every experience is worth noting down for you, dialogue ideas, sensory details, sudden thoughts and emotions, you write it all down.

You obsessively use Duolingo two months before your trip

You don’t just want to visit like a tourist, you want to belong like a local. You obsess over learning a new language for every country you visit, even if just to order the local dish the right way, or to capture the nuance of the place for the story you’ll someday write.

You plan entire trips on one dish you want to try

Whether it’s a century old recipe, or a street-side tea, you already know it’ll make its way into your work. And that’s reason enough to book the flight. Heritage retreats like the Bound Travel Writing Retreat helps you explore different cuisines of the places you visit, which makes the experience even sweeter, especially for the food lovers!

You shop based on where you’ll wear that outfit

When you go shopping, you think, “Where will I wear this in Goa?” Or “This would be a perfect fit for my travel writing retreat in South India!” Your closet tells a story before your words do.

Did you find yourself relating to these signs?